Alben tablets and granules

Product benefits:

•  Broad-spectrum antihelmintic effect.
•  High efficiency.
•  Single use.
•  Lower contamination of pastures.

Chemical composition and pharmacological properties

1 tablet contains albendazole - 0.36 g (as an active ingredient), as well as excipients. 1 g of granules contains albendazole - 0.2 g (as an active ingredient), as well as excipients.

Albendazole (a component of the drug) has broad-spectrum antihelmintic effect. It is effective against mono- and polyinvasions, imagoes and larvas of roundworms, trematodes, as well as against cestode imagoes. Ovocidic action of this active ingredient allows to lower contamination of pastures by worm eggs.

Mechanism of albendazole action includes selective inhibition of beta-tubulin polymerization, damage of glucose transport and activity of microtubular system of worm intestinal canal cells, blocking of movement of secretory granules and other organelles in muscle cells causing paralysis and death of worms.

Indications

Gastrointestinal nematodosis (haemonchosis, bunostomosis, esophagostomiasis, nematodirosis, ostertagiosis, neoascariosis, chabertiosis, cooperiosis, strongyloidosis, trichostrongylosis, strongylatosis, parascariosis, ascariosis, trichocephaliasis, toxocarosis, toxascaridosis, ankylostomosis, uncinariosis, ascaridiosis, heterakidosis, ganguleterakidosis);
pulmonary nematodosis (dictyocaulosis, protostrongilosis, mulleriosis, cystocaulosis, neostrongilosis, metastrongilosis); cestodiasis (monieziasis, avitellinosis, thysanieziosis, goose and duck hymenolepiasis, goose drepanidoteniasis); trematodiasis (fasciolasis, dicroceliasis, paramphistomidosis).

Contraindications

Do not use during lay period; in the first half (sheep, goats, pigs and carnivorous animals) and first trimester (cows and mares) of pregnancy; in contagious and debilitated animals.

Adverse events

Adverse events and complications are not observed in case of administration as per package insert.

Dosage and administration

Type of animal	Dose of Alben granules (g / kg of body weight)	Dose of Alben tablets (tablets / kg of body weight)
Cattle: Main dose Fasciolasis, dicroceliasis, paramphistomidosis and ostertagiosis	3.75 g / 100 kg 5 g / 100 kg	1 tablet / 50 kg 1 tablet / 35 kg
Sheep, goats: Main dose Fasciolasis, dicroceliasis and protostrongylidosis	2.5 g / 100 kg 3.75 g / 100 kg	1 tablet / 70 kg 1 tablet / 45 kg
Horses, donkeys, mules	3.75 g / 100 kg	1 tablet / 50 kg
Pigs	5.0 g / 100 kg	1 tablet / 35 kg
Carnivorous animals (toxocarosis, toxascaridosis, ankylostomosis, uncinariosis)	0.75 g / 10 kg (once a day for 2 days in succession)	1 tablet / 7 kg
Poultry (ascaridiosis, heterakidosis)	0.5 g / 10 kg (once a day for 2 days in succession)	1 tablet / 35 kg (once a day for 2 days in succession)

Group administration: mix body weight-based dose of Alben granules with concentrated feed. Dosage per animal is listed below: horses and cattle - 0.5-1.0 kg; sheep, goats and pigs - 150-200 g; poultry - 50 g; carnivorous animals - 50-100 g.
Fill feeders (aimed at 10-100 animals) with the obtained medicated mixture providing animals with free access. Fish: group administration of Alben granules with feed (0.2 g per 1 kg of ichtyomass). Factory use: add 4 kg of Alben granules to 1 ton of feed mixture by trituration. Farm use: suspend 1 kg of Alben granules in 7-10 l of water and mix in mixer with 250 kg of feed stuff. Use the obtained mixture without previous starvation diet for 2 times, 24 hours apart. Daily quantity of feed is 5% of fish body weight.

Special warnings

Farm animals and poultry are allowed to be slaughtered for meat in 20 and 5 days, respectively, after deworming. Milk is esculent not earlier than 4 days after deworming. Eggs are esculent in 4 days after deworming. Meat of compulsorily slaughtered animals and milk received before stated period termination can be used to feed carnivorous animals.

Esculent fish is allowed to be caught and sold not earlier than 18 days after termination of the drug administration. Water temperature must be above 8°С.

Storage

Store in closed original package. Protect from light and moisture. Keep out of the reach of children. Store separately from food and animal feeding at 0-25°С.

Pharmaceutical form

Alben granules - 1 kg polymeric bucket, 0.5 kg multilayer paper bag. Alben tablets - box (100 tablets).